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Saturday, October 1, 2016

When you crave for breakfast in diner or diner for breakfast, what would you do? Well you go ahead and make it right? I had the same thing, I was craving for quesadillas for the brunch but not with heavy vegetables and sides, but with my tea so made Egg Quesadillas for my brunch and I was full till diner. Its nothing fancy recipe, just make your eggs but with your favorite vegetables, hot sauce and put it on whole wheat tortilla with some cheese and voila , your breakfast is ready. I had it with my ginger tea and salsa but you can have it along with guacamole , sour cream or any other sauces.

This is perfect for single person, you can adjust quantities for more people

Saturday, September 17, 2016

I like to cook fast but still delicious and yummy food. We all make lasagna in a big tray, if you have a big family and you are freezing then its good to make it in a big tray but when you have small family and you know how much everyone is going to consume, you don't want to make it big batch. That's why when I decided to make lasagna , I went for my muffin tray, instead of my casserole.

This was easy , cooked fast and with the help of my kids, It makes them also interested in ready dish. They help me assemble dish and it was ready in half the time then regular lasagna.

I made it with my vegetarian ingredients but this is perfect with any meat dish also. Process is the same, boil the noodles, get ready with your stuffing and sauce and cheeses. and just assemble in cupcake mold. I made two trays of muffins.

Take your muffin pan , cut the boiled sheet in square, depend upon how big is the cavity. place two squares, then stuffing, then cheese, then sauce, again one square of sheet, stuffing, sauce and cheese. Top one has to be cheese.

Fill out all the cavities and put it in oven to bake it at 375 F. for 20 minutes.

Keep on checking in between, depend upon metal, glass. or silicon, and oven , temperature and cooking time is different.

When cheese is all melted and everything is cooked thru, take it out.

Keep it outside for 10 minutes, inside stuffing is very hot, you can burn your tongue.

After that serve it on plate with side of salad, bread or wine. Choice is yours.

Saturday, September 3, 2016

Hot n sour soup considered to be both Mandarin and Szechuan cuisines and everyone knows this soup too and make it very often too. But since I have health issues going in my family , we try to be more vegan and eat more healthy so this is a fantastic soup which suits for winter but hey we can have it on hot summer day , sipping a spoonful of soup in Air condition room. Who is going to stop us right? so enjoy this quick vegan hot n sour soup.

Place the oil in a medium pot over medium heat. Add the garlic, ginger, and chili pepper, and stir constantly for 1 minute. Add the water, mushrooms, bamboo shoots, and mixed vegetables and cook for 10 minutes, stirring occasionally.

Add the agave, vinegar, and arrowroot mixture, and gently stir until soup thickens. Add the soy sauce and tofu, if using, and cook for an additional 5 minutes or until the vegetables are tender.Add the green onion and mix well before serving.

Saturday, July 30, 2016

Every day is 90+ temperature so for that time you don't like something hot and spicy to eat or drink. So what do you do when kids want some healthy snack? Well make something cool so its good for them too and still they love it. So made this orange creamsicle shake, just orange juice, frozen banana , ice cream and they loved it. You can put whip cream on top or same vanilla ice cream what ever you like or kids like and enjoy it on hot sunny day.

Skip the ice cream and you can have it Vegan milk shake with almond, hemp, cashew or soya milk.

Saturday, July 9, 2016

After I tried Tempeh Meatballs I wanted to try bean balls too. So one fine evening when I was deciding what to make for diner I thought lets make bean balls and throw that in sauce along with vegetables and boiled pasta and my diner will be done. And it was exactly as per planned happen. You can fry, baked, shallow fry this balls but I use my paniyaram pan to cook this. I didn't add any egg in it so it was soft but if you want you can add egg and make it.

When I was going thru books from Blogging for Books , this is the first book catches my eyes, because its based on Tabasco sauce and I am a lover of spicy food. The book is by Barbara Hunter.

In my daily life Tabasco goes in every thing. Little drops of that sauce makes wonder in food. So I choose this book and when I got it in mail about two months ago, because of my hectic schedule I didn't get any time to post this recipe which I specially made it to use that sauce and believe me, that sauce added a punch to this recipe. So I was going thru recipes and I cut down meat and sea food recipes but my favorite one was Nacho with Mushrooms catches my attention. So that's goes to my to do list.

In a food processor, chop black beans to small chunks but do not puree. Transfer the chopped black beans into a large mixing bowl. Add oats and mix briefly. Set aside.

Finely chop walnuts, carrots, onion, fennel seeds, garlic in food processor. Stir the mixture into the black bean-oat batter. Mix in the rest of ingredients along with Tabasco sauce and combine well.

Cover the mixing bowl with lid or plastic wrap and let it chill in refrigerator for at least on hour.Remove the mixing bowl from refrigerator. Make balls and keep it aside. At this stage you can fry it or bake it. I took out my paniyaram pan, add dot of oil in all the holes. and slide single ball in each of the hall.

Cook it on all side and take it out.

You can add this in pasta sauce and served over spaghetti just like meatballs and pasta. or eat it as it is with a marinara sauce on side.

Wednesday, June 29, 2016

This dish mostly eaten in winter because it has lots of green garlic, green onion which are plenty of in season during winter days. my mom used to make this one when we were kids , we call bakda. Never knew it was called thotha until this year when I saw lot of people were in one of my FB group was making and posting it. So I thought let me share my version of this dish too. Here in US we got everything mostly year around so I can make this and enjoy it anytime. It is a very tasty dish with the full bowl of protein which we need it anyway and generally it's eaten with bread but I had it with roti and baigan bhartha.

Wash dry whole tuver and soaked in plenty of water for at least 8 hours.
then Pressure cook it with 5-6 whistles or until its soft . Let the cooker gets cool down before opening the lid. Check if tuver is boiled properly by pressing a bean between your fingers.

In a Pot, add oil, add mustard seeds and let it popped, when its done popping add hing, dry red chili and onion and cook till its little browned. Add ginger, garlic and chili and cook till everything nicely cooked. Add tomatoes and cook till its mushy.Add all the powder masala and water from cooked beans so it thickens.Add cooked Tuver beans along with little bit water or depend upon your liking of gravy. Add salt and cook it till it boils. Sprinkle coriander leaves. Traditionally, it tops with sev and eaten with bread. But I had it with roti and Bartha.

Saturday, June 25, 2016

When I had Polenta with Mexican Toppings and Salad , I was hooked on this yummy creamy buttery spread. So this time I made it and roll it and freeze it and when it was time for diner, cut it in disk, glazed it with olive oil , salt and pepper and grill it and top it with marinara sauce with roasted vegetables in it and diner is done in no time. This is just perfect for my weeknights when I come home at 7:15 and kids bed time is 8:30, I have to cook and put them in bed so I can spend some time with them. Usually I am done by 8 and we all eating at that time so half hour is good family time on dining table and then to the kids room for half an hour. This was done in 20 minutes with the help of my hubby, by the time I cooked vegetables in sauce , he grill the disk and we are off to dining table to enjoy.

Ingredients

12 polenta disks

2 carrot chopped

1 onion chopped

2-3 cloves of chopped garlic

¼ cup chopped zucchini

Few florets of Broccoli

¼ cup Yam chopped

1 Green and red capsicum each chopped

½ jar of Bertolli Marinara sauce

Salt and pepper to taste

As per taste red pepper flakes

2 tbsp. olive oil

Parmesan or any hard cheese

Method:

From the roll of polenta, cut it in 3/4 “ thick disk.

Heat a flat pan , add olive oil and when its hot grill the disk, season it both sides and keep it aside.

In other pan, add olive oil, add garlic and sauté for a minute, add yam, carrot first and cook it , when its ¼ done, add capsicum , onion, broccoli, zucchini, salt and pepper and cook for a minute.

Add marinara sauce and cook it on medium to slow flame so everything cook nicely and know each other.

At the time of serving , heat up grill again, put the disk on , spread cheese and melt the cheese and then take those disk on plate, generously take sauce with vegetables and sprinkle more pepper or red chili flakes and Parmesan cheese and enjoy.

But to make this kind of salad , its very easy and its perfect for summer grilling. It very easy to put ingredients together and small or big batch , just adjust the ingredients and you can feed the crowd with this dish. To make it spicy, I made spicy jalapenos creamy dressing go to with and boy , it was a nice kick every bite.

Ingredients :

3 Large eggs boiled and cut in squares

3 potatoes boiled and cut in squares

1 stalk of celery with leaves finely chopped

For Mayo Dressing :

2 Jalapenos finely chopped (If you prefer less heat, take out the seeds)

1/2 cup Mayo

2 tbsp. Yellow Mustard

Salt and pepper to taste

1 tbsp. Chopped green onion

Lime juice to taste

Method:

Mix the ingredients of dressing and keep it aside.

In a big bowl, add eggs, potatoes, celery and mix the dressing,

Its better to keep it at least 30 minutes to flavor get combined but its good to go at once too.

Wednesday, June 15, 2016

You need healthy and heavy breakfast in the morning when you don't know where and when you next meal is going to be or to fuel the body also you need hearty breakfast. For my everyday I just do breakfast when I reach to work, but weekends are busy and I am home so I try to eat heavy breakfast in the morning because I have lot to do in two days so this comes handy. I made eggs in mug and spread it with beans, cheese, hot sauce in warm tortilla and made quick hash brown, along with my ginger tea and croissant. And I am good to go till 6, generally on Saturday, I don't do lunch so this is perfect. Recipe is for one person.

Ingredients :

2 large eggs
3 tbsp. milk
1 Whole wheat tortilla
1/4 cup of cooked black beans or re fried beans
1/4 cup of cheese
Salt and pepper and hot sauce as per taste
You can add your favorite vegetables also and make it perfect omelette in burrito too.

Method:

Spray your mug and crack eggs in it, add salt and pepper and hot sauce , milk and microwave it for 1 and 1/2 minutes to 2 minutes, till eggs are perfectly cooked.
Add cheese and cook for 30 more seconds.
Warm your tortilla on flame, take the eggs out and spread it on tortilla, sprinkle your beans, add more hot sauce, salt and pepper and roll it.

Hash Brown : Grated 2 potatoes , season with salt, pepper , hot sauce .
take water out from potatoes and spray oil in non stick pan, spread potato mixture in there and cook till nice and crispy on both sides. You can use potato masher to make it thin so its cook nicely and quick and crunchy.

Saturday, June 11, 2016

So this post belongs to all the brownie lovers, who love baked, ooey gooey butter, all purpose flour, eggs loaded brownies. I just discovered that brownies can be healthy too and that too without all those ingredients I mentioned. How ? so read this post and you will know. I made this from dates and almonds and cashews, you can make vegan ganache on top with coconut oil , almond milk and dark chocolate but I didn't had patience to wait for that so just made brownies and still feel satisfied. This will be ready in no time so its very convenient too. So here you go with the recipe.

Process until smooth, scarping down the sides. Now its up to you, you want smooth or little crunch, I like little crunch so I didn't make smooth paste. It will form a bowl, looks like it need more liquid but don't add any extra water.

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